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KIDNEY DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease affecting the kidneys
Synonyms:
kidney disease; nephropathy; nephrosis; renal disorder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("kidney disease" is a kind of...):
uropathy (any pathology of the urinary tract)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kidney disease"):
Bright's disease; nephritis (an inflammation of the kidney)
nephroangiosclerosis; nephrosclerosis (kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure)
PKD; polycystic kidney disease (kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts; often leads to kidney failure)
polyuria (renal disorder characterized by the production of large volumes of pale dilute urine; often associated with diabetes)
kidney failure; renal failure (inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance)
renal insufficiency (insufficient excretion of wastes by the kidneys)
Context examples:
The MTOR gene is associated with polycystic kidney disease.
(MTOR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Mutations in the gene are associated with polycystic kidney disease autosomal dominant type 1.
(PKD1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Bardet-Biedl and Joubert syndromes are ciliopathies with many symptoms that may include deafness, kidney disease, and retina degeneration.
(Protein critical to cilia development, NIH)
Chronic kidney disease is defined as either kidney damage or GFR less than 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 for greater than or equal to 3 months.
(Chronic Kidney Disease, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
ESKD affects 10 per cent of the world’s population and 160 million patients with Type 2 diabetes are at risk of developing chronic kidney disease.
(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)
A new study now adds kidney disease to the list, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System.
(Breathing Dirty Air May Harm Kidneys, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Researchers identified 27 new genomic variants associated with conditions such as blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cigarette use and chronic kidney disease in diverse populations.
(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)
The researchers found the biggest differences in death rates from kidney disease, respiratory disease, and cancer.
(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)
They include vomiting, dehydration, hypotonia, developmental delays, hepatomegaly, lethargy, intellectual disabilities, and chronic kidney disease.
(Methylmalonic Acidemia, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a potential tumor suppressor role in prostate carcinomas, various leukemias, pituitary adenoma, polycystic kidney disease and polycystic liver disease.
(MIR15A Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
